Our IEU MONITORING headlines today:
SPECIAL: COVID-19
- EU Commission proposes to ease restrictions on non-essential travel to the EU while addressing variants through new ‘emergency brake’ mechanism
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
- AmCham EU Position paper – Science-based horizontal identification of endocrine disruptors under REACH
CARCINOGENS
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Second revision of the Carcinogens Directive – E-001130/2021(ASW)
ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATONS
- EU Commission Answer to a written question – Violation of EU environmental law – E-001301/2021(ASW)
NOVEL FOODS
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Novel foods: dehusked Digitaria exilis grains – E-001442/2021(ASW)
TOY SAFETY
- EP Think Tank: Briefing – The EU Toy Safety Directive
GREEN FINANCE
- Long-term investment needed to support the green and digital transitions in Belgium, says the latest EIB Investment Survey
- Bruegel: Accounting for climate policies in Europe’s sovereign debt market
WHISTLEBLOWERS
- Whistleblowers still risk jail time in Europe, study reveals – Less than a year until ‘big bang’ in legal protections
WASTE
- Italy and the EU must take back waste dumped in Tunisia now. Environmental groups: “Further delay is unacceptable”
PHARMA LEGISLATION
- AmCham EU Position paper – Evaluation and revision of the EU general pharmaceuticals legislation
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- CM 2956 2021 INIT Informal videoconferences of the members of the Working Party on the Environment
- CM 3038 2021 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on International Environment Issues (Biodiversity) (morning only)
- ST 8217 2021 INIT ADOPTION OF LEGISLATIVE ACTS FOLLOWING THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S SECOND READING Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1293/2013 – Outcome of the European Parliament’s second reading (Brussels, 26 to 29 April 2021)
- PE 14 2021 INIT REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL ESTABLISHING A PROGRAMME FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE ACTION (LIFE), AND REPEALING REGULATION (EU) No 1293/2013
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- Text adopted – Genetically modified cotton GHB614 × T304-40 × GHB119 – P9_TA(2021)0080 – Thursday, 11 March 2021 – Brussels
- Text adopted – Equivalence of forest reproductive material produced in the UK ***I – P9_TA(2021)0077 – Thursday, 11 March 2021 – Brussels
- Text adopted – Active substances, including dimoxystrobin – P9_TA(2021)0079 – Thursday, 11 March 2021 – Brussels
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
DG SANTE
- DURCHFÜHRUNGSBESCHLUSS DER KOMMISSION über die Verlängerung der von der Bundesstelle für Chemikalien ergriffenen Maßnahme zur Gestattung der Bereitstellung auf dem Markt und der Verwendung des Biozidprodukts Biobor JF gemäß Artikel 55 Absatz 1 der Verordnung (EU) Nr. 528/2012 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates
SCCS BRIEFS
- SCCS – Minutes of the Working Group Meeting on Cosmetic Ingredients of 23 April 2021
EFSA BRIEFS
- GP/EFSA/DATA/2021/01 – Identifying organisations that can be entrusted by EFSA to improve methods for collection, management and analysis of scientific data from Member State competent authorities reported to EFSA
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